Thesaurus results for HOUSEKEEPER

housekeeper

noun

ˈhau̇s-ˌkē-pər

Definition of housekeeper next

as in maid

a female domestic servant they hired a housekeeper to help their aging parents live at home

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Recent Examples of housekeeper Baena is Schwarzenegger's son with former housekeeper Mildred Baena. —

Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026 Roughly 82% of the Bay Area’s maids and housekeepers are immigrants, and close to 40% of the total are undocumented. —

Sara Dinatale, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026 The burden of explaining how the hell that happened is on head housekeeper Lily (Arquette) and her husband Ray (Paterson Joseph), both of whom have a commanding enough screen presence to make the exposition bearable. —

Katie Rife, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026 During turndown, housekeepers leave artisanal soap and sachets of lavender instead of the standard chocolates on the pillow. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for housekeeper

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maid

Noun

Doris and Ann, the family’s longtime upstairs-downstairs maids, were there too.

— Jennifer Cannon, Vanity Fair, 7 Apr. 2026
Jol just wants to be an artist on the continent with his soul mate, the former lady’s maid.

— Alice Burton, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026